Metropolis council members is not going to be getting a increase much like their county board counterparts. 

Town council Tuesday voted in opposition to giving a 3% increase to metropolis council members and the mayor. That regardless of the council pay having not been elevated since at the very least 2008. 

At the moment council members make round $5,300 per yr. 

The concept of a increase got here with a no advice from two metropolis committees, and most stated they didn’t assist elevating the council’s pay. Lisa Rasmussen and Doug Diny, for example, each agreed that the time wasn’t proper. 

“This shouldn’t have seen the sunshine of day,” Diny stated of the decision. 

A county committee final week gave approval to the thought of elevating county board member’s pay by 3%, and growing prolonged pay for individuals who chair committees or function vice chairs. 

Council member Lou Larson supported the pay increase. Although he doesn’t suppose council members do it for the cash, he puzzled how anybody may anticipate folks to run for workplace if the pay stays flat. 

Council member Tom Kilian went a step additional and proposed that the council really cut back pay by 3%. That movement failed 8-2, as did the movement to extend pay for the council. 

Had the pay increase been elevated, it will have began the subsequent time period; governing our bodies are unable to approve raises for their very own session.